Because it is a wonderfully natural part of life. If you could see past your own sad neurotic constructs, which were probably decided for you by some one else, it becomes easier to understand, Sweety. Don’t just be a pathetic and passive follower of others; do some work, weight the evidence and decide for your self. Come on, now. Get on with. Go… go… go…. Do something good in the world, rather than wasting your pathetic life trolling gay websites and trying to harm people. Choose and be the loving self you want to be in the world. Let your hate and anger go.

Not at all surprised, the same with the church as well. The C of E is stuffed with closetted queens and always has been. Perhaps it’s time their closet doors were flung wide open so people can see the hypocrites for what they are – self loathing bigots!

Interesting too that the BBC news channel has been headlining the Tory Party Chairman’s attempt to delay the vote. As usual the Bigots Broadcasting Corporation has been giving the homophobes ots of air time with little to no opposing views, except for a half hearted attempt by William Hague. Time the BBC were taken to task for their sheer lack of blance in reporting SSM.

I have put in an official complaint: I rang up to complain first at the radio4 today programme piece on Friday morning, then they put the same piece on their Facebook; then blow me down if they didn’t do a similarly homophobic piece on Saturday morning. I agree, the BBC should be brought to task over their biased reporting.

I wrote an official complaint as well in regards to their editorial bias. That was about a week ago…. do you think I’ve had a reply?

Not so much as a holding email.
Shows how much the BBC really cares about its ‘oh-so-loveable’ Licence payers.

I wonder if there is enough of a story in it to give the liberal press a scandal issue? (If you include some of their other bias broadcasting I’m sure it’d start to stick…. especially the stuff to do with Israel/Palestine)

To be fair, it feels a bit to me like the BBC has been giving SSM opponents sufficient rope to hang themselves….On the R4 news at lunchtime yesterday they had two Tories – one from each camp – being interviewed, giving a balanced picture, then they had a political commentator pointing out that for most members of the public, SSM is relatively unimportant as a factor influencing how they might vote in the next election (12th out of 15 issues), and all this publicity is doing is damaging the Cameron’s attempts to ‘modernise’ the Tory party and make it more electable. It repeated recent poll results showing most people are in favour of SSM, and a number of Tory contributors were rather desperately trying to argue that the internal discussion is ‘entirely amicable’, when it clearly isn’t…….Of course, the SSM opponents are quite right to say that this issue will cost them votes, but mainly the votes of those who might have started to think they were starting to become a decent party..

I don’t believe in outing someone against their will. However I do believe in calling out hypocrisy – in which case the outing is merely an entirely acceptable consequence. It’s really no different than calling out a politician who is engaging in business activities that result in a conflict of interest with his or her political position. Bottom line: don’t expect us to protect your arse while you are throwing us under the bus…

A little O/T. But I notice that Sky News today has interviewed people in favour of SSM, unlike the BBC or the London branch of the vatican which yesterday interviewed only those strongly opposed.
How shaming for the BBC to be shown as being blatantly biased by comparison with part of Rupert Murdoch’s empire.

It has been this way ever since Nick Robinson became the Political editor. His sympathies have always been with certain members of the Tory right and on this issue his bias shows very clearly. Note, it is him who decides on all content across BBC media relating to parliament and political issues such as this.

Perhaps he could go to Fox News then and people can decide whether to pay his wages or not rather than the hapless payers of the licence fee. What a gross betrayal of trust someone at the BEEB is perpetrating and it’s becoming increasingly noticed.

OUTING is a weapon we should use! Given the amount of underhand tactics of the Church, all the bigots in their footsteps and some of our elected representatives, outing closeted MPs is perfectly legitimate. Bring it on!
We’re at war, in case some of you were naive enough to think otherwise!

Very clever. Clearly Mr Dale has invited “Fleet Street” to name & shame. May have been more honourable if he had just named the culprits himself. Seems a little cowardly to get others to do his dirty work.

Iain, I think what John means is that by making the comment about two MPs you know of, you’ve opened up the door for anyone in Fleet Street so interested to investigate, not that you have invited them personally. I think you should out them since they are MPs of the worst kind, hypocrites and bigots. It’s well warranted in this case.

John, do you know that for sure? If that’s the case, I hope they expose the hypocrites, let the chips fall where they may, especially if they’re already married. Too damned bad I say. The price you pay for hypocrisy as an MP.

I think this old chestnut needs challenging. It is true in some cases, but I think some people just validate themselves through the knowledge that their character is in tune with common prejudices and that they can put down anyone outside that framework.

The Barney Frank rule of political outing, from the western side of the Pond:

“I think there’s a right to privacy. But the right to privacy should not be a right to hypocrisy. People who want to demonize other people shouldn’t then be able to go home and close the door, and do it themselves.”

And anyone who is talking about the sacred bond of one man and one woman while schtupping someone else on the side – of any gender – deserves (for once) the self-righteous rage of pre-Leveson Fleet St.

Iain Dale should out them unless he has no proof. Expose the bigots and hypocrites and bigots for what they are, shame them publicly. Are we to assume they are Tories? I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes knowing what might be coming their way after tuesday’s vote. Serves them right. I wouldn’t normally support outing but in this case it’s sorely warranted.

This is true. If you outed someone and what you said turned out to not be true, the result would not be nice.

On the other hand I remember when someone named Mandelson was outed by someone named Paris, who said in his defense that he wasn’t really outing him because he thought everyone knew. But many didn’t want to know.

I’m not at all surprised. The most raging bigots (like WBC) are so far in the closet they’re in Narnia. They’re all cringing cowards. It makes my blood boil to think what misery they’ve caused when they are all shivering behind the closet doors.

Your all ready to out them, what if they vote in favour? This pressure might just be enough all ready. If they are married, its not only them that gets hurt. Give them the chance to do the right thing. If they don’t, name and shame them, they deserve it.

If they are paying close attention to what Iain Dale said, they should come out now and declare support by and avoid being outed. If they don’t, serves them right. I have no sympathy for them. They’ve been given every chance to support it in the past year since the consultation ended. Why haven’t they? Now is the time. Vote yes or suffer the consequences.

I am disinclined to out people in general and dislike the all too frequent line ‘explaining’ homophobes as secretly gay, but when it has practical consequences and hypocrisy it feels only just, with the condition that it is backed up with clear evidence. Homophobes use the tactics of suspicion, rumour and ‘where will it end’ and we should be better than that.

Anyhoo, I’m totally okay with a mass outing. If you just happen to prefer it in Narnia, I can’t exactly blame you if you have to share a workplace with anybody like the aforementioned c-u-n-tbag, but if you gay-bash, you’ve brought it on yourself.

Btw, do you not think these MPs’ behaviour is the Tory “all in this together ” mentality writ large? Marital supremacy for the chavs and plebs, clandestine bumsex in your wife’s bed for us.

This is another reminder – not that we needed one – that the closet is toxic. The fear of being outed is so much worse than being honest and open, particularly for public figures. Have politicians’ careers been adversely affected after having come out?

I can think only of positive examples, including Kathleen Wynne, the out married lesbian premier-designate of Ontario, Canada’s largest province.

Sounds like the Republicans here in the U.S.!! The ones who protest the loudest against anything pro-LGBT are often trying to outshout the Queens clamoring to get out of their closets!! Here’s a link to a movie which was designed to expose hypocrisy in our government. Wasn’t a hit in D.C. :)

I hope that the two MPs do vote for same-sex marriage. But if they don’t, I don’t believe they are hypocrites.
There are some out gay people eg Andrew Pierce who take a similar view. I disagree with them, but in a democracy you get different opinions. They would be hypocritical if they wanted gay sex to be illegal whilst they were also having gay relationships. We. an win the arguement by calm and reasonable debate, not by threatening anyone who disagrees with us.

I take it we’ll soon be seeing some more additions to this site then?http://gayhomophobe.com/
I agree with all those who said that people in positions of power who are caught renting hotelrooms with rentboys whilst silmultaneously campaigning to shove gay civil rights back in the closet deserve to be outed.

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